Ring Motif in Halo

Check out that door design in one of the two interior Halo screenshots and compare it with the background design in the Halo logo. Now how's that for detail.

Max Dyckhoff <mcbd100@york.ac.uk> writes:

I actually noticed when looking at that picture that the wall behind the two aliens in that corridor (to the right of THAT door) also seems to have some funky designs on it. You may have noticed them already, but they look like more rings... (especially behind and around the foremost alien's left elbow...)

See below for the points Max describes.

Owen Borstad <Owen@borstad.com> writes:

I was playing around with the logo trying to make a skin for Audion (I'll send it when I'm done) and got a partial reconstruction of the texture used in the logo. I've attached it for your viewing pleasure.

Thanks Owen. Here are two reconconstructions I made some time ago.

In addition here is another reconstruction by Ian and Colin Jackson <bohrhead@freeuk.com> of the Total Halo site. This image was submitted to the Miscellaneous Art section of halo.bungie.org.

Does this reconstructed image represent an alien mural? A mural depicting the Halo world? Given that the same image appears on an interior door we might conclude that the mural was created by the same "third alien race" who built the "ancient ring construct" itself.

Circular designs on doors can also be found in Marathon. Remember the ornate S'pht door on the Marathon 2 level "Waterloo Waterpark"?

Click here for a closer look at the same door. Notice the similarity. And who created the S'pht? ;-)

Alan Greene <alan@fontshop.com> writes:

I wanted to point out that the pattern on the other side of the H in the Halo logo, looks like the structure of the walls in the hallway in that picture. It has that same low-angled sub-divided look, which could be just pure coincidence, but they're proportioned in very much the same way.
Here are the images. One is of the two images next to each other, so you can see how the angles in the logo look like the hallway. The second image is an overlay, so you can really see how the proportions are similar.

On Bungie's present Halo page (which went live on Oct 4th) you'll find a navigation bar with distinctive left and right arrows (see below).

Join the arrows together...

... and you get something very like the frame of those Halo doors above.

David Johnston <de.johnston@sympatico.ca> points that part of the Jjaro logo from Marathon Infinity bears a striking resemblance to the '0' in the Halo logo. Here's a comparision pic. Note the spur that extends from the 'O' and then a similar spur extending from the Jjaro space station in the background of the Jjaro logo.

Chris Hebner <chebner@erinet.com> sent in a pic showing the Jjaro logo overlaid over the full Jjaro space station. Note how the end of the spur is cut off in logo thus excluding the round part at the end. This would seem to counter any suggestion that the 'O' of the Halo logo was designed to look like part of a Jjaro space station. Unless of course the inspiration came from the Jjaro logo itself rather than the space station. Chris goes onto to say:

There could still be an interesting correlation between the 2 symbols. The Jjaro uses a map as a backround, the Halo uses a (?wall) texture.

Sarwat Khan <sarwat@interlog.com> writes:

You know that Halo door pattern that everybody loves to talk about? It's also in the Jjaro logo from Infinity, as you can see in the attached pic.

Mike Schapiro <mikeschappy@ameritech.net> writes concerning the map hologram room first seen in the Macworld Expo New York movie:

As I was watching the new (day4) Halo footage, I noticed something about the big room we first see the marine standing in. A) The room is quite circular with a hall way leading out the bottom/back/whichever direction you feel like. B) Except for a narrow walkway, there is no floor. I drew a very rough floorplan in Photoshop, and it's pretty interesting, to say the least.
P.S. It's color coded: Blue is a wall that may or may not exist in that shape. White is the walkway + the hallway. Yellow is a wall seperating the Holograph room from the rest of the base.

Very nice. The Halo marine does stand on a circular platform in the middle of a spherical room. And the floorplan is oddly familar... as if it were from an old dream, but you can't exactly remember...

Rob Swenson <noctavis@rampancy.net> of rampancy.net has scanned in a two page Halo spread (304K) from the July edition of IncitePC magazine. Very nice large shot of the E3 Halo banner including some interesting additional details to the far right. Note the ring symbol on the side of the building and the somewhat Aztec or Mayan looking hieroglyph/mural at the base of the building. Covenant design or something much older? Based on what we know of the Official Halo Backstory the ring would appear to have been abandoned for some 100,000 years. If so then the structures we have seen so far were created by the same "third alien race" who built the "ancient ring construct" itself. So unless the Covenant are heavily into graffiti the ring symbol and hieroglyphs (above) belong to that "third alien race".

This is another indoor screenshot showing the circular door more clearly in the background.

Claude Errera <errera@bungie.org> kindly sent in a composite shot of the full hologram screen seen in the E3 Halo movie trailer. It appears at 1 min 7 secs into the movie. Note the strange symbols (glyphs). Claude also points out the glyphs appear to change as you advance through the movie.

Diego Rey (aka Decameron) <decameron@tiscalinet.it> writes concerning the strange symbols seen on the hologram screen in the recent Halo E3 movie trailer:

It seems like those strange Glyphs are Covenant text or a logo to identify structures (in which case the console would be a map). If you go through the E3 pre-preview released by DailyRadar, you'll notice that we can see a very similar symbol in the big structure.

This symbol appears to be similar to the one seen in the two page Halo spread from IncitePC magazine (July 2000).